PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fabio De Giorgio
AU  - Antonio Abbate
AU  - Giuseppe Vetrugno
AU  - Arnaldo Capelli
AU  - Vincenzo Arena
TI  - Non-atherosclerotic coronary pathology causing sudden death
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.2005.035360
DP  - 2007 Jan 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 94--97
VI  - 60
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/60/1/94.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/60/1/94.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol2007 Jan 01; 60
AB  - Coronary atherosclerosis is responsible for >50% of all cases of sudden death and for 90% of sudden coronary death. Four cases encountered in routine autopsy evaluation at our institute in 2004 in which non-atherosclerotic coronary pathology was responsible for sudden cardiac death are reported. The cases of a 31-year-old man with epicardial coronary arteritis, a 57-year-old man with intramyocardial vasculitis, a 45-year-old woman with spontaneous coronary dissection and a 50-year-old man with vascular fibrosis are described. Searching for non-atherosclerotic coronary disease is relevant for both the clinician and the pathologist to prevent coronary causes of sudden death going unrecognised.